Requiring police to arrest anyone they suspect of minor domestic violence can lead to a four-fold increase in early death for their victims, research to be revealed Monday shows. A shocking illustration of unintended consequences, the long-term analysis of 1200 domestic violence cases in Milwaukee marks the greatest challenge yet to the “mandatory arrest” policies […]

In a state whose license plates advertise it as America’s Dairyland, where lawmakers once honored the bacterium in Monterey Jack as the state’s official microbe and where otherwise sober citizens wear foam cheesehead hats, road crews are trying to thaw freezing Wisconsin streets with a material that smells a little like mozzarella.